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B. HONBGGER. SHUTTLE BOX OPERATING MECHANISM FOR LOOMS- Patented Oct. 5,1886,.

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I E.'HON,EGGER. SHUTTLE BOX OPERATING MECHANISM FOR LOOMS. 'No. 350,307.

Patented Oct. 5, 188 6.

A NOR/VH5 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

EMIL HONEGGER, OF UNION, NEW JERSEY, ASSIGNOR TO HIMSELF AND ADOLFSTAPFER, OF SAME PLACE.

SHUTTLE-BOX-OPERATING MECHANISM FOR LOOMS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 350,307, dated October5, 1886.

Application filed November 5, 1885. 7 Serial No. 181,902. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern):

Be it known that I, EM'IL HONEGGER, of the town of Union, county ofHudson, State of New Jersey, have invented an Improvement in Shuttle BoxOperating Mechanism for Looms, of which the following is a full, clear,and exact description, reference being made to the accompanyingdrawings, in which Figure l is a side elevation, partly in section, ofthat portion of a loom which contains my improvement. Fig. 2 is a sideelevation, partly in section, of part of a loom, showing my improvement,the linec 0, Fig. 3, indicating the plane of section. *Fig. 3 is ahorizontal section takenon the line k k, Fig. 2. Fig. 4 is an enlargedvertical longitudinal section on theline c is, Fig. 2. V

This invention relates to improved means for bringing either one-of aseries of shuttles into line with the shed of a loom; and it consists ofthe combination of devices, hereinafter specified, for moving a rackcontaining the series of shuttles to a greater or less height,asrequired. In the drawings, the letter A represents the uvertically-movable rack which contains the series of shuttles.

In this illustration I have shown three shuttlesB, G, and Din the rack.

a and b are the warp-threads which form the shed.

In Fig. 1 the upper shuttle, B, is shown aligned with theshed so that itcan be thrown to carry its thread into the fabric. The rack Aissuspended by two belts or cords, d and e, from a shaft, E, which has itsbearings in the frame F of the loom.

Fig. 1, showing the uppermost shuttle, B, in line with the'shed,represents necessarily the rack A in its lowermost position. When theshuttle G is to be used, the rack must be raised higher than it is shownin Fig. 1, until saidshuttle G is aligned with the shed. WVhen theshuttle D is to be thrown, the rack must be raised still higher untilthe shuttle D is aligned with the shed. Thus either one of the threeshuttles can be brought into line with the shed to'be thrown, and myinvention seeks to bring about the automaticmovement of the rack, bymeans of which either one of these shuttles can be broughtinto line withthe shed and kept there as long as needed for producing a certaindesign, to bereplaced by any one of the other shuttles when that isnecessary to be thrown.

I desire it understood that,although the invention is here shownasapplied to a loom having three shuttles, itcan, nevertheless, be usedin a loom having only two, or on one having more than three, shuttles,the system shown being illustrative of the invention only.

The shaft E can be turned in one direction by a hook, G, (see Fig. 2,)and in the opposite direction bya hook, H. These two hooks are suspendedpivotally from a block, f, which is connected by a strap, 9, with alever, h, that connects by a rod, i,with a lower lever, I. To this lowerlever, I, oscillating motionjs imparted by a cam-shaft, J, and by aspring, j. Rotary motion is imparted to the shaft J by suitablemechanism. The spring j is represented as connected to the upper lever,h, by

one end, its other end being attached to the ceiling of the room orother fixed support. By rotating the shaft J the levers I and h areoscillated, and thereby the block f is moved up and down between properguides k, carrying with it the hooks G and H. Each of these hooks G His, by a spring, I, sought to be crowded against that part of the shaftE which is provided with four (more or less) parallel- 'rods, m, betweenplates n.

By card mechanism, hereinafter to be referred to, either one or both ofthe hooks can be moved in gear with the shaft E. Thus in Fig. 2 the hookG is shown as bearing against the rods m, while the other book, H, isrepresented as being clear of said shaft E and of the rods m thereon. Inthe same Fig. 2 the blockf or slide is shown in the lowermost position.that when the block f is now raised, the hook G will turn the shaft E inthe direction of the arrow 1, which is represented in Fig.2, and in soturning the cord or strap 6, which is fastened at its upper end to theprismaticportion o of the shaft E, is in part wound upon said shaft,thereby raising the rack A. The parts hereinbefore described and theirmovements are so proportioned that every upward stroke of the block fwill, when it causes the hook G to turn the shaft E, cause the rack A tobe raised by the strap 6 the distance of one shuttle from the one nextbelow it. If the hook G It follows is out of gear with the rods m on theshaft E, as shown by dotted lines, Fig. 2, and in its stead the hook H,in gear with one of the rods m on said shaft, then every upward movementof the block f and hook H will turn the shaft E in the directionopposite that shown by the arrow 1 in Fig. 2, and here, again, themotion is such that the resulting downward movement of the rack A willbe equal to the distance between two adjoining shuttles. provided thecord orstrap c is made use of in lowering said rack. In other words,therefore, if the rack A is in the position shown in. Fig. 1 and theshaft E thereupon turned by the hook G, the shuttle C will be brought inalignment with the shed. If afterward the shaft E is again turned by thehook G, the shuttle D will be brought in line with the shed. Ifthereupon the hook H is made use of to turn the shaft, by one stroke ofsaid hook the shuttle G will again be brought in line with the shed,while the next stroke of the hook H in the same way, in engagement withone of the rods in on the shaft E, would cause the shuttle B to bebrought back in alignment with the shed. The shaft E is prevented fromturning of its own accord, or from being turned by the weight of therack A and the shuttles thereon, by a brake, L. This brake is a T-shaped slide, of which the vertical portion moves in suitable guides onthe frame F, while its straight-edged horizontal portion rests on tworods, 19, of which a number are arranged around the axis of the shaft Eand at equal distances from one another and located be tween plates q,as shown. Four rods, 10, are so used whenever the prismatic portion 0 ofthe shaft E is four-sided, and also when there are four rods, m, for thehooks G H to engage with; but it is clear that, instead of four sides tothe prism 0, said prism may have five or more sides, in which case thenumber of rods m and 1) would be correspondingly increased. The spiralspring r crowds the flat face of the brake L upon two rods 9 of theshaft E, and thereby prevents the said shaft from turning except underthe positive influence of hooks G H; but when one of these hooks engagesthe shaft to turn it the brakeLwill be raised and its spring 1*contracted until two rods 12 are again placed under the brake, whichwill then hold the shaft in position.

If it is desired to move the rack A the distance of more than oneshuttle, so as, for example, to bring the shuttle D into line with theshed after the shuttle B had been used, I make use of the strap (11, theupper end of which is attached toa prismatic block. .9, which islooselyswiveled on the shaft E. This loose condition of the block 3prevents it being disturbed whenever the cord or strap 6 is used; butthe block 8 can be locked to the shaft E by a slide, M, which moves on aprismatic part, t, of the shaft E, and which carriesaprojecting pin, a.When this pin is broughtinto a fork, c, that is carried by the block s,(see Fig. 3,) the block 8 will be locked tothe shaft E, so as to turntherewith, and will thus pull the rack A or lower it, according to thedirection in which the shaft E is turned the distance of the shuttles BD from one another. The slide M is moved to lock or unlock the block .9by the card mechanism hereinafter de scribed. The blocksis a prism somuch larger than the prism 0 that it will,whenever turned, move the racktwice as far as the same movement of the shaft E will cause said rack tobe displaced by the strap a.

Having thus shown what will take place with reference to the position ofthe rack A whenever the shaft E is turned by one of the hooks G H, itremains to show how the hooks G H are brought into action, how they are;

kept in action for any length of time, and how the slide M is moved.

N is a chain of cards, which is placed round two rollers, w and w, andwhich is to control the position of the hooks G H and slide M. Thischain is moved intermittently by a hook,

to, which is provided to a lever, b that is connected by a cord orstrap, (1", with the lever I. Whenever the lever I is moved downwardly,it will cause the hook to to move down,too; but whenever the lever Imoves upwardly thehook a" and lever I) are moved upward by a spring, 6The book a engages a ratchet or studded wheel, f, on the roller it), sothat during its downward movement the said hook will turn. the roller w,and thereby the chain of cards, at least whenever the said hook is heldby an appropriate spring, 9 in contact with the wheel f but I havecontrived means, which I shall hereinafter describe, for throwing thehook it off the wheel, as in Fig. 2, in which case the chain N willremain stationary.

I have represented in Fig. 3 four hangers or suspended bars, h, 5 ,3 andZ, in line with the chain N, so that either one or more of said hangers,all of which are pivoted at m to the stationary frame of the loom, canbe moved out of their vertical position by pins on the chain N. I willfirst describe how these hangers affect the position of the hooks G'I-I.The hanger j is connected by a horizontal rod, M, with another hanger,0", which is pivoted to the frame F at P2. (See Fig. 2). The hooks G H,it will be seen, are suspended from the block f, midway between thehangers j and 0 The hanger 0 connects by a link, q, with a lever, a,which carries a rod, 3, on the end of which is a loop, 8", that embracesthe shank of the hook H. WVhenever the pin on the chain N' pushes thehanger j awayfrom the card, the ban ger 0 is, by the rod a, pushed intothe inclined position shown in Fig. 2, thereby causing it to swing thelever 1" with the upper end toward the hook H, and to push the rod .5:toward the chain N. This motion of the rod 8" causes its loop to carrythe hook H into the inclined position, which is shown by full lines inFig. 2. Thus the hook H is carried away from the shaft E and'out ofengagement with the rods on the same. By the spring-connection Z withthe hook G. the hook.

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H draws the hook 5; toward the shaft E, as in Fig. 2, if the hook G isnot otherwise prevented from approaching said shaft. Hence it followsthat whenever the chain of cards swings the hanger j -and none of theother hangers near it, the hook H will be moved out of engagement andthe hook G into engagement with the rods on shaft E. As soon as the cardceases to effect the hanger j the same drops under the influence of itsown weight, assisted, if desired, by asuitable spring, into a verticalposition, which is sufficient to cause the hook H to be released fromthe action of the loop 8 and to drop into the dotted position shown inFig. 2, where, however, it is still out of engagement with the rods onshaft E. The hanger i connects with a rod, V, which carries a loop, ithat embraces the shank of the hook G. Therefore,when the hanger i ismoved by the card, the loop t carries the hook G away from the shaft E,yvhich motion, by the connecting-sp ring Z, causes the hook H to bedrawn into engagement with the shaft E. Thus whenever the card movesonly the hanger i the hook H is drawn into engagement with the rods onshaft E andthe hook G out. of engagement. When the hanger i isunaffected by the card, it holds by the loop t the hook G, in the dottedposition represented in Fig. 2, where it is still out of engagement withthe rods on shaft E. In other words,-when both hangers 2' and 9' areunaffected by the card, both hooks G and H will-be in the dottedposition shown for them in Fig. 2, out of engagement with the shaft E,so as not to influence the same in any way during their reciprocatingmovement with the block f. I have thus shown how the hooks G and H canbe thrown alternately into engagement with the rods on shaft E, and howthey are held out of engagement when required.

I will now show how the cards affect the position of the slide M for thepurpose of throwing the block 8, which carries the strap d, into and outof gear. Fig. 1 shows that the ends of the slide M bear against theinner sides of two hangers, O P, that are pivotally suspended at n and ofrom the stationary frame F, and that are connected together by a rod, wso that when one of them is moved the other will move in the samedirection and to the same extent. The hanger O, which is also shown insection in Fig. 3, connects with a lever, Q, which by a link, at, isconnected with a hanger, 3 which at p is suspended from the frame F. Bya rod, a the hanger is connected with the hanger Z Whenever the cardpushes the hanger P, the same will,by the horizontal rod a swing thehanger 3 in the same manner, and will thereby cause the lever Q to drawthe hanger O in the direction toward the hangery*. The hangers O Pmoving together, it follows that by this motion the slide M will bemoved to carry its pin it out of the fork 1;, thereby disengaging theblock 8 and leaving it freely swiveled on the shaft E. When, however,the card leaves the hanger Z undisturbed,

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a spring, b will draw the hanger 0 toward the shaft E, thereby movingthe slide M so as to carry its pin a into engagement with the fork candlock the block sto said shaft. Of course the arrangement stated may bevariedor re- Thus, for example, the fork o and pin it may be on theopposite side of the shaft E, so that the block 8 will be thrown intoengagement with theshaft E when the hanger Z is disturbed by the card,and held out of engagement when said hanger is left undisturbed by thecard. V

It remains to show the mechanism I have devised for holding the chain ofcards N im- This movable for a suitable length of time. isfor thepurpose of permitting the use of one shuttle for any period of time. Forexample, if a design to be woven provides for the use of severalshuttle-threads of a given color. in

succession, it is desirable to lock the chain of cards N during. thisthrowing of the same shuttle and not unnecessarily to move it. For thispurpose I have placed near the hook a which, as has been already shown,moves the card N, a pivoted cam, (1 which is represented by dotted linesin Figs. 1 and 2, and which has its edge made partly flat and partlycircular. When the flat edge of this cam is aligned with the shank ofthe hook a as in Fig. 1, the said hook will be in engagement with thewheel to move the chain of cards N; but when the circular part of thecam d is in contact with the shank of the hook at, as in Fig. 2, thenthe hook will be held away from the wheel f and will not be able to movethe chain of cards N. The cam d carries on its face as many equidistantpins, 6 as correspond to the number of shuttle-threads of the same colorto be thrown in succession, and in lieu of these pins, as an equivalent,a ratchet- ,wheel on the cam d may be used. f is apawl pivoted to thelever 12 and normally held out of engagement with the said ratchet-wheelor pin-wheel e by a spring, 9 (see Fig, 1;) but when the cam d is to beturned to render the chain of cards N stationary the hanger h is movedby a pin on the cards and carries a'yoke, h against the pawl f so as tocrowd that pawl into engagement with one of the pins or ratchet-teeth,asin Fig. 2. When, now, the lever I is oscillated, the lever btwill causethe pawl f to turn. the pin-wheel or ratchet-wheel c and with it the camd so as to crowd the book at out of gear, as in Fig. 2,- and stop themovement of the chain of cards N. The cards will remain thus arresteduntil the straight edge of the cam d is again in 1. The combination ofthe chain of cards N with the hangers j 0", rod it, link (f, lever a,rod 5', having the loop 8, hook H, spring Z, hook G, shaft E, andmechanism,snbstantia1ly as described, for moving said hooks G and H upand down, as specified.

2. The combination of the chain of cards N with the hangers j 0 link q",lever 1*, rod 8 having loop 8 rod n hanger i rod 75, hav ing loop t",and with the hooks G and H, spring 1, shaft E, and mechanism,substantially as described, for moving said hooks G and H; a specified.

3. The combination of the rack A, containing three or more shuttles,with the straps d e, shaft E, swivelblock s, fork '0, slide M, and pina, and with mechanism, substantially as described, for turning saidshaft and moving said slide, as set forth.

4. The combination of the chain of cards N with the hangers Z and 3 roda lever Q, link as, hangers O P, rod 20 slide M, pin a, fork v,swivel-block s, shaft E, and with mechanism, substantially as described,for turning said shaft, as specified.

5. The combination of the chain of cards N and its supporting-drums wand w, and ratchet-\vheel, with the actuating-hook a cam d, pins 6 pawlf, yoke h, and hanger k and mechanism, substantially as described, formoving the hook a up and down, and for 111OV- ing the pawl f, asspecified.

6. The combination of the chain of cards N with the wheel f, hook a camd,- pins a, pawl f yoke h hanger 71/ springs g", lever If, spring 6strap cl, lever I, cam-shaft J, rod 6, lever h, spring j, slide f,hangers 1 and Z", rod to, lever Q. link as, connected hangers O P, rodw, slide M, pin a, fork 12, swivelblock 8, shaft E, said shaft havingthe prismatic portion 0, the rods m and the rods 1), hooks G H, springZ, hangers 0 and j, rods n s 21 hanger i lever 7*", link q, brake L,straps d e, andrack A, containing a series of shuttles, as specified.

EMIL HONEGGER.

itnesses:

HARRY M. TURK, C: G. M. THOMAS.

